Jeffrey M Smith, an authority on genetically modified organisms and the author of Genetic Roulette, says that 65 health risks from GMOs provide irrefutable evidence. of harm. In this interview he explains why GM technology must be confined to the lab.
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Klaus Liebig- German Leftist thinker, Pedagogue, Green movement activist. Was Director of âThe Trade Union Movement Of Baveriaâ He was born seven days after the commencement of Second World War. Amidst the miseries of the war he reached America where he was issued a judgment to undergo three years imprisonment for not participating in the Vietnam War.

- IRENE FERNANDEZ, winner of the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (the Alternate Nobel Prize) was in Kochi recently. Daughter of pre-World War II migrant Malayalee parents, she is a campaigner for migrant worker, plantation workers and women's rights. Irene is also a trade union organiser, environmentalist and the central committee member of the National Justice Party of Malaysia. Veteran campaigner Irene Fernandez in conversation with PN Venugopal about her work among Malaysia's migrant workers

"I am opposed to any country having nuclear weapons and particularly against countries
where there is large-scale poverty wasting money on them. I have been on record saying
that India and Pakistan made a big mistake when they went in that direction. But I cannot
tolerate the hypocrisy of the West. Israel has nuclear weapons and that's not a problem
for them. Pakistan and India too have nuclear weapons which is fine too. But the Iranians
are not allowed to have them. Why? ...."
New Leftist, former president of the Oxford Union, 1960's cult figure, writer, journalist,
filmmaker, above all, the US-baiter. Tariq Ali, speaks to
Kasturi Basu in Kolkata during his recent visit to India.